Hey Ive had my D'alberts for about a year now and im confused i thought for sure i had a golden phase WLP but after ready the post a few sections down about black phase im a little lost.. can anyone tell me if this is a golden phase or a brown phase i know he's not a black phase he's hardly black at all... ill try to get some better pics but this one will have to do for now... thank you!
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D'alberts questions
Larryskeepers
Jul 09, 2003 03:19 PM
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dave barker
Jul 09, 2003 04:39 PM
...and a very good-looking one. What a gorgeous snake! In the old days we called those "amber-phase." They are found on the Sorong Peninsula and along the north coast of New Guinea, so they are also identified as the "northern race."
Tracy and I have had seen only four true brown whitelips and kept three of them. So far as we've seen, they are the only race of the species that does not have a black head. Yes, their head is somewhat darker than the body, but there is no sharp demarcation between the color of the body and the black head. All of them had massive heads, signifcantly larger than the heads of the other races of whitelips relative to their body size. And all of them were totally tame snakes, even the large wild-caught adult male we had. They were VERY tame snakes.
jfmoore
Jul 09, 2003 08:38 PM
>>And all of them were totally tame snakes
Now there’s a ‘morph’ of whitelips you should be working on. Can I send my advance payment now?
pythonjosh
Jul 11, 2003 01:38 AM
I was starting to get confused. Are they a future project?
Thanks,
Josh
>>...and a very good-looking one. What a gorgeous snake! In the old days we called those "amber-phase." They are found on the Sorong Peninsula and along the north coast of New Guinea, so they are also identified as the "northern race."
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>>Tracy and I have had seen only four true brown whitelips and kept three of them. So far as we've seen, they are the only race of the species that does not have a black head. Yes, their head is somewhat darker than the body, but there is no sharp demarcation between the color of the body and the black head. All of them had massive heads, significantly larger than the heads of the other races of whitelips relative to their body size. And all of them were totally tame snakes, even the large wild-caught adult male we had. They were VERY tame snakes.
